it's the -- i'm on the board and on the prize committee of the mo ibrahim foundation. and the ibrahim index covers the 54 countries as it now is and the continent of africa. and in fact we'll have to wait now because of sudan and south sudan until the data becomes clear. so they'll probably be excluded for a year or so. but all of the other countries are being ranked for their economic development, human rights, tackling poverty. and you can actually see in the index the countries that are making progress. and it's very interesting to see, for example, liberia is coming up the index as president sirleaf johnson knows. countries like zimbabwe have gone down for reasons that are understandable. this is the index that has the merit of being created by an african. mo ibrahim is born in sudan, is a businessman, who made a lot of money putting in cell phones in african countries without corruption cell tell and put his money back into this foundation. we don't measure the performance of democratic governments very effectively. it's left far too much to politicians making rhe

the braver i see my men become, the closer i see our victory. >> reporter: al-ibrahim commands 80 men on a base not far from the home shared by his parents, wife and three children. like some two-thirds of his men, he had no military experience before picking up arms against the regime of president bashar al-assad. >> ( translated ): we must demand our rights and fight for them as others have done. there is no doubt about this war-- it is our right. everyone has seen the injustice with their own eyes. >> reporter: eight battalions based in these mountains work together under one central command. they form part of a network of rebel groups dotted throughout the country, but essentially they answer only to their regional leader. they're waging a guerilla war with whatever weapons they can get, many brought from the enemy. this new batch of arms was purchased from a corrupt government official the previous night. the fighters check them for booby traps. >> ( translated ): this is a good bullet. these are bashar's bullets to explode our guns. two of our guns have exploded so far and two m

. >> stepping out of the prison van, 5-year-old ibrahim and alicia. kadija shaer padill covered her own face. she was caught with heroin worth almost 3 million pounds. she said she was carrying the bags for someone else. young as they are, her children have been sharing her jail cell, as is often the case here. she didn't want to speak on camera, but we managed to grab a few words with carry inside the courtroom. she said conditions in jail were absolutely horrific with stifling temperatures and overcrowded cells. and she protected her innocence. i didn't know what was in those bags, she said. i wouldn't do that with two small children. this is the jail where she is being held. the legal charity repeat claims other pregnant women have died here and says a mother and children are at risk. >> they are living in a very small cell along with six other inmates. she was due for a test six weeks ago and she hasn't had that. she hasn't been taken to any gynecologist or a doctor for that matter. >> the british high commission says its providing consular assist

are doing in governments in the country of africa, and i'm on the board and on the committee of the ibrahim foundation and the index covers and the continent of africa and we have to wait now because of sudan and it's excluded for a year or two, and some of the other countries are being ranked for the economic development and human rights and participation and tackling poverty and you can actually see in the index the countries that are making progress and it's very interesting to see, for example, liberia is coming up the index. countries like zimbabwe have gone down, and this is an index that is created by an african and it was born in sudan and it's a businessman who made a lot of money from cell phone and putting cell phones in african countries without corruption which he sold to the kuwaiti government for a huge amount of money and he put his money back into this foundation and we don't measure the performance of democratic governments and it's left far too much to politicians making rhetorical speeches rather than what are they actually doing? >> can you measure improvements in healt

ibrahim sankare was very close to an older sister growing up. he walked into her room one evening. >> i saw her lying in a pool of blood. i thought someone had really hurt her. i screamed. my father explained to me. since then, even now i get goosebumps thinking about it. >> it was very painful. i will never-you ask me if i can forget it? i will never forget the pain. so painful. >> reporter: she's a long time campaigner against genital cutting, and she's spared her ten-year- old daughter the trauma. yet before she became involved with tostan and early in her marriage, she was determined to keep up the tradition. even her own husband was opposed to genital cutting. >> she insisted that she had to do it. there were so many problems if you didn't do it. if you cooked meals, no one would eat your food. it's because we didn't know. people told us that it was our religion. if you don't do it, you'll be going against your religion. all this is false. but i alone can't do this in the village. >> reporter: they say tostan was able to insure they were no

senator john mccain, turkogluish ambassador nam namak tahn, the foreign min store senior advisor ibrahim kolum will be joining us later today by skype. unfortunately he and senior advisor salek -- amir salek who planned to be here were called back by the prime minister to deal with the current crisis of the downed aircraft but fortunately we'll be joined by skype. of course these kinds of conferences don't just happen. they take weeks, months of very hard work and preparation. i'd like to thank a couple of people. first, ross wilson, ambassador ross wilson who is now chairman of the board of governors of georgetown university institute of turkish studies. without their partnership we wouldn't be able to expand this annual conference to this larger space which we have clearly needed to do. we have a number of speakers who have come from out of town. i'd like to welcome them. i'd specifically -- especially like to thank the middle east institute's own doctor ga newly toel who was our director of turkish studies. she's been working on this for months with her very able interns and the entir

let's not talk to gigi ibrahim she's one of the so-called citizen journalists who helped spread news of what was happening on tahrir square last year via social media she thanks for being on r.t. now you've been labeled as one of the leaders of last year's revolution of you happy with today's verdict is it the result you expected the uprising to bring. i was i didn't have faith in this process whatsoever this whole trial has been a complete show from the start to the actual acts use ation on what they're trying mubarak and i'm not even surprised with this verdict because it like it's not satisfying to for me for me i won nothing less than death to mubarak for killing protesters for for corruption cases and everything but actually what the verdict was that you know what i didn't prevent this violence which is not enough for me and people are not happy and their actions. you know in the streets are show are telling of what to come there are protests in all over egypt protesting this verdict one thing more harsh for all of the accused men as specially the fact that how people are these

to al qaeda there in pakistan, the number one threat from al qaeda remains al qaeda in yemen and ibrahim al nas siree, the master bomb maker who has attempted three times previously to attack u.s. targets, jim. >> can you tell us about anything, what this might do to relations with pakistan? they were upset about drone strikes. >> reporter: the pakistani parliament passed a law prohibiting u.s. drone strikes there inside pakistan. so the obama administration has made it clear -- including president obama, who often makes a decision on individuals that are targeted by these drone strikes. they've made it clear that despite protestations from pakistan, ongoing troubles, including the fact that pakistan is closed down those supply routes into afghanistan for american weapons in afghanistan. the white house, the administration, president obama, has made it clear, despite those protestati protestations, the u.s. will continue to strike against al qaeda targets as they did in this case. >> jim mcla shev ski. thank you. >>> the former penn state assistant football coach is accused of sexually a

this is what it looks like, this is what it sounds like. ( crying ) ibrahim is eight months old.is tiny body consumed by the effects of severe malnutrition. majet is in pain, hungry and desperately thirsty. yahaman is eight months old and struggling to stay alive. ameena's hair has been turned red by a lifetime without enough food, and so had her sister's. her mother tells me that she will stay until they get better. then there are those who worry their children might never improve. every child here is at serious risk of dying. for each bed, there is a skeletal frame. as for a second year, a once in a generation hunger crisis strikes the children of africa. for many miles around, more young patients arrive all the time. that's more work for the doctors who have rarely seen anything like this. "the situation is serious," he says. "the admission rate is rising dramatically." right now across western africa, communities like this are caught between climate change, conflict and poverty. the women of the village complain about a lack of rain, but it's when i ask about food that they b

and their master bombmaker, ibrahim al nas irry, who's tried three times now to blow up airliners over america. natalie? >> all right, jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thank you, jim. >>> senate republicans have knocked down a bill that would have mandated equal pay for women in the workplace. president obama and democratic leaders say people need to know how much they're paid compared to their coworkers. republicans say the bill would put too much of a burden on employers. >>> grammy award winning singer sheryl crow has revealed that she has a brain tumor but the 50-year-old breast cancer survivor says it is benign. doctors say it's relatively common and many people have them and never know it. crow told a las vegas reporter this week that she'd been worrying about her memory and got an mri, finding the tumor. back in february crow made headlines for flubbing the lyrics to her hit song "soak up the sun." she blamed the mistake on her brain at the time. her representative says there's no cause for alarm and that crow is healthy and happy. >>> and an amazing show last night was the las